Haslam asks school leaders to back off Huffman

2:11 PM,
Sep. 17, 2013

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam

Written by

Lisa Fingeroot
| The Tennessean

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam is asking education leaders to back off criticism of beleaguered Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman and find a new way to communicate their concerns.

"The bottom line is that we are at a critical point in the implementation of key reforms that I believe will lead to continued progress in education, and this work is simply too important to get sidetracked," Haslam wrote in a letter addressed to school system superintendents and dated Monday.